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Effective Utilization of Road Space on the Selected Road Links of Ahmedabad City
Ahmedabad is metropolis rapid growing city of Gujarat, in many regions of Ahmedabad multi lanes road serves different purposes like vehicular traffic, pedestrians, bicycles, public transit system etc. But with uneven or non-uniform distribution of space for each activities. So, there will be a need to allocate most appropriate and sufficient space with proper utilization of road space. In this research, the main aim of the study is effective utilization of road space throughout day without any undesirable congestion. Also suitable space allocation and designing to attain economy in capital cost as well as maintenance and operations cost of road user. This research affords to study the level of utilization of spaces allocated in urban roads of study area for different purposes and collect the information’s regarding traffic volume count, speed-delay studies, pedestrian traffic survey, LOS of the existing condition. Traffic data collected on a section of a sixlane divided roadway (one-way movement only) are used to develop the speed-flow curve. It is observed that capacity is 1791 PCU/hour and 1924 PCU/hour for IIM mid-block and at Shivranjani mid-block observed capacity is 2194 PCU/hour and 2060 PCU/hour respectively. The observed capacity compared with capacity suggested by INDO-HCM 2017. At IIM mid-block the observed capacity is nearly 57.35% and 54.19% lower than the capacity suggested by INDO-HCM 2017. At Shivranjani mid-block the capacity suggested by INDO-HCM 2017 is nearly 2.28% and 5.67% higher than the observed capacity.
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